God-Likeness in All Times
"But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48, NLT) "Our Lord's exhortation to us in verses 38-48 is to be generous in our behavior toward everyone. Beware of living according to your natural affections in your spiritual life....
Your
Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Your. Your ... "a form of the possessive case of you used as an attributive adjective" (dictionary.com). With that definition now in mind,...
Prevail
When this year 2020 began in January, no one could have prepared us for all it would unfold. It surely seemed like an ordinary start to another year. But this was the year we all would hear and learn words like "unprecedented", "mitigation", "quarantine", "COVID-19",...
One Touch & Hope
For the last week, I have had a woman and her story weaving her way through my thoughts. She'd been ill for twelve years. Suffering with a constant bleeding. As if that were not enough, she had suffered from the hands of many doctors who tried to help her to no avail....
Praise, Prayer & Assurance
These mornings sure are a bit darker and cooler as time marches on and reminds us autumn will soon be arriving! We continued on beginning the week with reading Ezra 7:11-20. Here we find the king's letter to Ezra, in which he releases the people to go up to Jerusalem...
I Have All That I Need
“I have all that I need.†(Psalm 23:1, NLT) As we continue into this psalm, we find David making a pretty bold statement in the middle of adversity, “I have all that I need†or in the more familiar, “I shall not want.†How is he able to say that? To do so,...